Mercury’s high-performance RES AI GPGPU computing servers can harness up to eight NVIDIA GPUS to accelerate demanding artificial intelligence (AI), signal intelligence (SIGINT), and sensor fusion ...

Chapters 1 through 9 describe a long and largely successful history of supercomputing, a present state of turmoil, and an uncertain future. In this chapter the committee summarizes what it has learned ...

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

The TeraGrid project to build and interconnect supercomputers gets a $35 million National Science Foundation grant to expand the "grid" beyond its original Itanium 2 designs. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Nvidia Corp. today detailed how its chips are accelerating innovation in the high-performance computing industry for artificial intelligence-powered systems that will power scientific advances with ...

Samsung finally has a launch vehicle for its high-performance Z-NAND memory. Z-NAND, which is a supercharged variant of existing 3D NAND technology, is widely viewed as Samsung's credible alternative ...

Europe unveils 35 new systems in its biggest AI supercomputing expansion, giving millions of researchers access to HPC.

Cray has shown off its fastest supercomputer yet, which puts a petaflop of computing power in a single cabinet. The company also says it is adding machine-learning capabilities across its systems. The ...

With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraflops of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the continent A unique, federally funded computing effort ...

(Nanowerk News) A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell ...

The preceding chapter summarized some of the application areas in which supercomputing is important. Supercomputers are used to reduce overall time to solution—the time between initiating the use of ...